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Dave Golder

Agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

Publications:: SFX Magazine

Total Reviews:: 37

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
3/5	56%	Oblivion (2013)	" While it tries hard to resurrect the spirit of '60s and '70s sci-fi, what it actually feels more like is The Matrix without the benefit of a bullet time-like gimmick." — SFX Magazine Posted Apr 10, 2013
3/5	48%	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012)	" Breaking Dawn - Part Two is an efficient, rewarding finale for the loyalists, and really isn't bad enough to bother the rest of us." — SFX Magazine Posted Mar 8, 2013
2.5/5	45%	Beautiful Creatures (2013)	" What works best about the film is what you might fear the most - the teen romance. It's the supernatural part that sucks." — SFX Magazine Posted Feb 16, 2013
4.5/5	79%	Ruby Sparks (2012)	" Directed by the team behind the equally quirky-but-heartwarming Little Miss Sunshine, it's never quite the biting satire you may expect, aiming rather for a Michel Gondry vibe." — SFX Magazine Posted Feb 8, 2013
3.5/5	31%	Total Recall (2012)	" If there had never been an 'original' Total Recall, the reaction to Wiseman's version would surely have been a lot less frosty. Because in and of itself, it's a decent enough sci-fi action flick - severely flawed, but a lot of fun." — SFX Magazine Posted Jan 2, 2013
3.5/5	66%	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)	" An Unexpected Journey is a bit ropey, excessive and padded in places, sure, but if that's the worst and the best is yet to come, then this could end up being another great trilogy." — SFX Magazine Posted Dec 10, 2012
4/5	91%	Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan ()	" While a little light and fluffy - and not offering much insight or info that hasn't been covered in the numerous books on Harryhausen - it's a wonderful celebration of his work." — SFX Magazine Posted Nov 9, 2012
2.5/5	——	Doctor Who - Planet of Giants (2003)	" On the production side, 'Planet Of Giants' has some impressive moments. But overall, this is a story with big ideas, but little ambition." — SFX Magazine Posted Aug 17, 2012
4/5	73%	The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)	" Has characters you can fall in love with, and bags of charm. The series is in safe hands." — SFX Magazine Posted Jun 21, 2012
3/5	48%	Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)	" Worth watching for the breathless moments when it captures the magic completely on screen. But while its heart may be in the right place, it doesn't beat with much passion." — SFX Magazine Posted Jun 11, 2012
5/5	——	Roujin Z (1991)	" Utterly bonkers, but also very, very sweet, and even has something to say about how society regards the elderly." — SFX Magazine Posted Jun 11, 2012
3/5	——	Space: Above and Beyond (2009)	" The show has some truly brilliant episodes, especially whenever it explores the nature of the In Vitros. Unfortunately, it has just as many downright dull, talky episodes based around contrived sources of friction. " — SFX Magazine Posted Apr 30, 2012
2.5/5	34%	Battleship (2012)	" If you love military hardware, it's a great naval gazing exercise. But as a blockbuster it's all a bit half-mast." — SFX Magazine Posted Apr 11, 2012
3.5/5	92%	The Cabin in the Woods (2012)	" A massively entertaining, awesomely inventive twist on the traditional 'teenage kids go to a spooky house in the woods' genre that falters in the final reel, when things get too bizarrely excessive." — SFX Magazine Posted Mar 10, 2012
4/5	——	Doctor Who - The Face of Evil (2000)	" Rarely has Doctor Who been so adult... this is strong, compelling stuff." — SFX Magazine Posted Mar 2, 2012
4/5	51%	John Carter (2012)	" Lynn Collins's feisty Dejah Thoris is the best kick-ass sci-fi princess since Leia" — SFX Magazine Posted Mar 2, 2012
2.5/5	72%	Fright Night (2011)	" You have to wonder whether everybody involved in this remake went in with the mission statement to make the most average vampire movie ever. If so, they did a sterling job." — SFX Magazine Posted Feb 17, 2012
4/5	85%	Chronicle (2012)	" A lot darker and disturbing than you might expect, Chronicle is a consistently watchable, assured debut, which largely overcomes the problems of its (now long past its sell-by date) format." — SFX Magazine Posted Jan 27, 2012
1.5/5	35%	Immortals (2011)	" Immortals doesn't lack a sense of wonder. You spend most of the film wondering why they bothered making it. " — SFX Magazine Posted Nov 11, 2011
4/5	88%	X-Men: First Class (2011)	" The film tries to do too much, to cover too much ground... The result is a film that's very easy to enjoy, but hard to love." — SFX Magazine Posted Oct 28, 2011
3/5	60%	Real Steel (2011)	" A family movie like Disney used to make, with all the faults and bonuses that implies." — SFX Magazine Posted Oct 14, 2011
2.5/5	——	Doctor Who - The Sunmakers (2002)	" The satire is rather blunt, and the gags don't make up for a story that's even more about running down corridors than normal." — SFX Magazine Posted Oct 12, 2011
3/5	——	Doctor Who - Colony in Space (2003)	" Slow, visually uninspired and full of facial hair." — SFX Magazine Posted Oct 12, 2011
4/5	77%	Thor (2011)	" While Thor may not be a thundering triumph, it's decent enough fun to make you hope that lightning strikes twice and we get a sequel." — SFX Magazine Posted Apr 19, 2011
3/5	73%	The Adjustment Bureau (2011)	" With a few adjustments here and there, this could have been a great film, rather than a irritatingly flawed one with some great moments. " — SFX Magazine Posted Mar 4, 2011
3.5/5	49%	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)	" It's hardly groundbreaking, but after the stodgy, cluttered, overblown last couple of Potter pics this unpretentious fantasy flick feels like a nostalgic return to the glory days of Ray Harryhausen. " — SFX Magazine Posted Dec 14, 2010
4.5/5	——	The Complete Metropolis (2010)	" It's less like watching a film, more like perusing a historical document." — SFX Magazine Posted Nov 19, 2010
1/5	——	Doctor Who - Time and the Rani (2000)	" Provided everything that anyone who'd ever taken the piss out of Doctor Who needed for ammunition. " — SFX Magazine Posted Nov 16, 2010
3/5	79%	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (2010)	" Often just seems to be going round in very decreasing circles, chasing its own fairytale. " — SFX Magazine Posted Nov 16, 2010
3.5/5	——	Goemon (2009)	" An intriguing film let down sometimes by its stylisation." — SFX Magazine Posted Aug 13, 2010
	74%	Splice (2010)	" Spends three quarters of its running time desperately fighting against being the kind of film you expect it to be, before becoming exactly the kind of film you expect it to be..." — SFX Magazine Posted Aug 2, 2010
3.5/5	63%	Predators (2010)	" A great film whenever the actors aren't actually required to deliver any lines. " — SFX Magazine Posted Jul 8, 2010
2.5/5	51%	Alice in Wonderland (2010)	" Burton and Wonderland may sound on paper like a marriage made in heaven, but the result is disappointingly bland and half-baked." — SFX Magazine Posted Jun 4, 2010
4/5	67%	Daybreakers (2010)	" The Spierig Brothers have created an unsettlingly believable world, part Blade Runner, part Gattaca, part Blade." — SFX Magazine Posted Jan 11, 2010
3/5	84%	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)	" Why David Yates decided to move the series so far away from its fantasy adventure heartland is puzzling." — SFX Magazine Posted Jul 8, 2009
3.5/5	60%	300 (2007)	" This is cinema as a fireside storyteller, retelling heroic tales handed down through the generations." — SFX Magazine Posted May 12, 2009

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